Lori
Mackenzie
Co-founder at Stanford VMware Women's Leadership Innovation Lab
"Revolutionizing Board Culture"
"Revolutionizing Board Culture"
Fri May 23 - 1:00 PM EDT/New York (See in local time)
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Session: Revolutionizing Board Culture
Boards of Directors provide guidance, oversight and accountability to help organizations navigate uncertainty and thrive. As boards seek to enhance their effectiveness by bringing in new voices and perspectives, they must also curate a culture that leverages the power of diversity. In collaboration with the California Partners Project, a non-profit co-founded by First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom, the Stanford VMware Women's Leadership Innovation Lab launched the first-ever playbook on board culture in January. Learn about the insights that drive both inclusivity and effectiveness to maximize board potential.Key Takeaways
- Culture is comprised of the norms and the behaviors that people experience in relationships (one-on-one, in meetings, groups, etc.) Each and every one of us can be a curator of the culture around us
- Meetings are often end up as contests for airtime. Leaders can instead learn to facilitate meetings to maximize participation and enhance decision making.
- We often jump into the "work at hand"; yet we can enhance participation and effectiveness by setting the context
- A DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) lens can be a powerful tool to boost effectiveness of groups and teams.
Bio
Lori Nishiura Mackenzie is a speaker, researcher and change agent in diversity, equity and inclusion. She is co-founder of the Stanford VMware Women’s Leadership Innovation Lab, which creates impact research to understand the barriers to women’s advancement in order to build more inclusive workplaces. She is working with the California Partners Project, a non-profit co-founded by California First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom, to create tools for boards to recruit to increase diversity and foster inclusive cultures. Lori has been recognized as a 2022 LinkedIn Top Voice in Gender Equity, a BBC’s 100 Women in 2017, and in the award-winning documentary, bias, which premiered in 2018. Her work has been published in the Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, Inc., Fast Company and Inc. In 2020, Lori was awarded the CEDAW* Human Rights Award, Education, from the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women. Lori brings 20 years of marketing strategy and business management experience at companies including Procter & Gamble, Apple, eBay and PayPal. She is a board member of the Alliance for Girls and the Center for Institutional Courage, and an advisor to August Public. Lori has an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a BA in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.*Pronounced see-daw for UN General Assembly, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, 18 December 1979
